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Gulf Air has announced half price flights for children under 12-years-of-age on all its flights from London Heathrow.
The offer is available on all travel taking place from now until December 11th 2009, with all travel completed by December 14th.
From now until July 27th 2009, families booking with children will get 50 per cent off the adult ticket price, adding to the reasons for holidaymakers to choose Gulf Air for their travels this year.
Gulf Air prides itself on recognising the needs of families travelling with them.
It was the first airline in the world to introduce the onboard Sky Nanny, a dedicated service for the individual needs of all its customers, no matter how young or old they are.
Sky Nanny takes the strain off parents travelling with young children and keeps the younger passengers amused during the journey making it a memorable and enjoyable experience for both parents and children.
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s cousin’s flights cost the taxpayer almost £150,000.
Prince Henry, the Duke of Gloucester – who is 19th in line to the throne – and his wife Birgitte flew to Tonga and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific last August for the Coronation of Tonga’s King George Tupou V, leaving taxpayers to foot bill.
The couple’s journey from London to New Zealand – with return flights to Britain from Australia – cost £35,413 while charter flights to the islands added a further £114,000 to the price of the trip.
The total cost of the couple’s round trip was £149,413.
According to the report, Prince Charles made the most expensive train journey when he travelled to Sheffield, South Yorkshire from London to visit a steelworks, then from Bingley to Warminster on other royal engagements before returning to London’s Euston station.
The full cost of the trip was reportedly £26,762.
Yesterday it was reported Britain’s Princess Beatrice – who is fifth in line to the throne – lived in an apartment newly-renovated flat in St James’ Palace during her first year at London’s Goldsmith’s College, at a cost of £300,000.
Earlier this week Buckingham Palace accounts revealed each British taxpayer paid 69p towards the royals during the last financial year – up 3 pence on the previous year.
The accounts also show Queen Elizabeth was forced to add to the civil list – which pays for the running of her homes, staff wages and royal events – by withdrawing £6 million from her reserve fund.
The 83-year-old monarch is expected to ask the government to increase the civil list when their current financial agreement ends in December 2010.
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For many travelers, this will be a good summer to head across the Atlantic. The pound is recovering ground against the dollar, and because airlines are under huge financial pressure, they are having to generate much-needed revenue by cutting fares spectacularly. In the past few weeks we have seen return flights to New York for under £200 – lower than they have been in summer for more than 30 years.
For departures during the peak school holiday weeks in late July and most of August, the situation is not quite so rosy. The cheapest return to New York on a direct flight then will set you back about £500. However, there is little logic to air fares from the customer’s point of view, and you can currently book tickets on the much longer flights to Los Angeles or San Francisco for considerably less than this, or you could wait until late August and save hundreds of pounds.
